Have courage and be kind.

Lying to the reader

Lying to themselves

Simply misinformed

Not paying attention

Has weird priorities

Assumed you knew

Hates you personally

Bad at communicating

Easily sidetracked

Will believe anything

Has weird prejudices

#you know how in voyage of the dawn treader there's that incredible sequence on the island#where eustace meets a dragon and is entirely incapable of recognizing it as a Dragon#because he didn't read the right kind of books as a child#no one is born knowing things there is always a moment when you learn for the first time#and i grant that fairy and fae are different words#but baby girl#please#the only acceptable way to post this is after you do a MODICUM of research and are admitting this is a thing you just learned!#we do not sit and stew in a soup of our own ignorance forever lest someone else season it with their disdain!!!

I am an archeologist. I specialize in a somewhat obscure but by no means boring or meaningless Neolithic culture in Germany.

It has a Wikipedia page. A well curated, surprisingly extensive Wiki page that encapsulates all the important information about the culture, including literature references for further research.

One day, we asked Chat GPT about this culture. W were curious which details it would get wrong.

ALL OF THEM, except for the fact that it's a culture in present day Germany.

It didn't even get the chronological time frame wrong and called it a celtic culture.

When we told it it's wrong, it came at us with made up literature sources. Literally made up. It took two well known German archeologist who weren't even active at the same time, added a year - both were already dead - and sold that as source.

And it LITERALLY would only have had to quote Wikipedia to get everything right.

THAT is how unbelievably shitty and wrong all those AIs are.

They are making shit up. They are not sourcing information, they're just slapping words together by their most like relative occurance.